Life in Japan - Pictures galore !! Arcades, Temples, Rainy days, etc

Cool thread, I've always been fascinated with Japan (hard not to being a gamer), so seeing pictures of more or less everyday life there is very interesting.
Nice one Yakumo, and all others who have posted pics so far :thumbsup:

 

I likey this thread alot. The pictures are fascinating.

 

You're welcome guys. Anyone is free to post pictures of Japan here so let's hope more members that visit will do :thumbsup:

Yakumo

 

Enjoy!

 

wow..THIS..IS..JAPAN!!

 

It looks like a Crocodile.

 

the momentary score on my yamada denki pointcard:

 

That's a nice selection of points. At one time I had almost 10'000 points on mine. Needless to say that they have been used. Got my self two wii games with them.! My card now though had the machine make a mess of it giving me 43 tries. Just a shame I keep getting 10 bloody points each time I put it in to the machine

Sorry for the crappy picture. Metallic items don't seem to scan very well.


Yakumo

 

yeah.. i had a 500 hit few times ago. but ever since then a 20 hit is the max.

but this time i more like to refere to the exact amount i have now on the card

 

I have 3300 or so on my Sakuraya card. I took a picture but it came out like shit so I didn't post it.

 

I went to Nagasaki during O-bon holiday and put some pics online:

http://picasaweb.google.com/caniscontentus/Nagasaki

It's a really fascinating city with its long history of Western influence. Most of the photos are not very interesting without an explanation I guess, but you'll get a few impressions. It's really worth a visit.

More forum related, I also spent a few hours in Fukuoka on the way back and dropped into Mandarake. Nice selection of rare stuff (Rendering Ranger loose for around 18.000!) but most of the normal games are quite expensive, esp. for Dreamcast.

 

Nice pics. I've never seen half a torii before, either.

 

Nice collection of pictures indeed.

Yakumo

 

that reminds me.. I still havent posted any of my pics from my 2005 trip, have I? xD

I only have a few online+

My desk in KYOTO




hide MUSEUM





random SHIBUYA picture


Ill post more picture later

 

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I think the Hawaii of Japan is indeed Hawaii.

 

From hotel window in Kyoto.



Every august at the end of Obon, they celebrate by burning large picture fires in the Gozan Fire Festival. Here are the best non blurry shots I could find in the 100s of pictures I took from a park in the middle of Kyoto which you can see 4 of the 5 fires, although two of them are hard to see clearly, so the Dai kanji and boat are the ones I took the best photos of as they were much nearer.

 

Have you been in the park near the river, between Marutamachi and Imadegawa?
I was at last years Daimonji-Okuribi at this place and just like you, only managed to get a handful non-blurry shots out of about 100. Fantastic festival, I can recommend a visit to anybody who plans to go to Japan during summer.

Here are some pictures from last year:
http://picasaweb.google.de/julian.ertelt/AGamerSTripToKyoto2007/photo#5113230751535323362
http://picasaweb.google.de/julian.ertelt/AGamerSTripToKyoto2007/photo#5113230781600094450

I have a lot more, including from the Funagate amd Myo/Ho-Kanji, but I thought they are too blurry to upload.
I love how eager the Japanese are with their traditions. The afternoon before the Okuribi, I spoke to a guy who worked at a wishplate thing at Ryôanji-dera and although he knew I wouldn't understand more than 10% of what he said, he continued to tell me all the history of the festival plus how many members of his family are climbing the hills to install the fires and so on. ^_^

 

Nice picture of the lit kanji. Bit of a shitty view from the hotel mind you.

Yakumo

 

Ah, I finally got my gallery back online. Here are some pics I took between June 23 - June 30, 2007. Only had a point-and-shoot digital camera.


http://www.rain-man.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=62&g2_serialNumber=2

http://www.rain-man.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=133&g2_serialNumber=2

http://www.rain-man.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=155&g2_serialNumber=2

http://www.rain-man.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=168&g2_serialNumber=2

More images: http://www.rain-man.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=20&g2_page=4